It’s still a ways off, but when Solaris 10 arrives, Sun Microsystems will ship the OS with a new type of partitioning technology called Solaris Zones.
In many ways, the Solaris Zones – known internally by the Kevlar code-name – will be a hardened version of the Solaris Containers currently offered to users for keeping applications isolated from each other. With the Zones, users can split up applications into numerous different compartments all running on one OS image. The amount of processor power, I/O bandwidth and memory for each Zone can be altered, and each one can also be rebooted, said John Fowler, CTO of software at Sun.
This sounds potentially cool as long as it’s not PR BS. It sounds like a little mainstream virtualization. Cool!